Nice job! McKey was quite the enigma in Seattle, showing amazing flashes of brilliance (which you captured in your video) but never consistently enough to be a star. He was one of my favorite players in Seattle though. I believe he became known for his defense in Indiana.
I feel the same. I hate that the Sonics traded him away. The pre-Kemp/Payton Sonics were nice. X-Man even knew his days were numbered when Shawn Kemp came and play. X-Man was a favorite too.
@@islandbee Same, Xavier is easily one of the top 2 or 3 most underrated wings in the 80's, hell he's a top ten most underrated wing in all of NBA history! Him and Portland's Jerome Kersey were clones of one another, two big and strong SF's all them to play against PF, super athletic with great motors, unstoppable post moves, phenomenal at taking their man off the dribble and then finishing with either hand, (something u just don't see very much anymore, you rarely will see a right-handed guy drive and dunk with his left hand nowadays), and then had great mid-range jumpers to go with decent outside shots as well. Then add to that they were both similarly were lock-down defenders, with the speed and agility to keep up with short SG's and then the strength and length to defend big 4's. The Blazers, Suns, Pistons and Sonics were my teams back then. I loved Kemp too who was ridiculously athletic and very versatile, and yet he still wasn't nearly as versatile as prime Xavier McDaniel of the mid to late 80's. The Suns were stupid for not doing more to sign him following the 1990 season after trading sharp-shooter Eddie Johnson for him early in the season. Imagine Xavier starting at SF along side Barkley, Chambers at Center, Cebalos, (who i think should have been starting ahead of Majerle, and was underutilized that season imo), and KJ at point - not to mention for forementioned Majerle, Frank Johnson, Mark West, Oliver Miller, and of course Richrd Dumas all coming off the bench. In the championship series against the Bulls, Cedric got hurt and missed the series, and even without the best bench scorer they still managed to take the Bulls to 6 games, which is why i think they woulda won if he had been healthy. But even if he wasn't, if they had held onto Xavier the definitely woulda won even if Ced did get injured.
@@Drummer_Jeff83 yeah the 99 pacers went to round 3 but the nba also no longer had legends like jerry west larry bird magic johnson oscar robertson kareem abdul-jabbar wilt chamberlain + bill russell
Someone compared him to Jeremy Sochan. I'm like who.. and yeah.. the comparison's pretty much right. Hopefully Sochan develops into more of a Boris Diaw type of player.
Both Men had careers with nearly the same amount of productivity, save for the fact that Gilliam ended up with 2,500 more career points. Looks like to me Phoenix was looking for a true PF that could deal with Centers too: McKey played a lot more SF. Gilliam's 2nd year in the league he got lots of quality minutes on a team with quality, big men. Such strange metrics some folks seem to employ. Rest in Power, to the Hammer.
